"The Statesman's Year-Book" for 1915 (London, 1915) (52nd year). Edition by G. Scott Keltie. "The British Empire," 1913-4
Operating Railways (Railways open)
Malta +8
United Kingdom 23,441 miles
India 34,656
Cyprus 61
Ceylon 605
Straits Settlements and Federated
Malay States 771
"Borneo and Sarawak" 130
Asia (excluding India) 1,567
Australia and Oceania 23,021
Africa 17,485
America 31,953
= 134,131*
1 mile = 1.6 km.; 134 × 1.6 = 214.4 thousand km.; 130 × 1.6 = 208.0; 771 × 1.6 = 1,233.6 + 208 = 1,441 kilometers
Railways in Dutch colonies (end of 1913) 1,512 miles — Java 209 miles — Sumatra — "Dutch East Indies," includ-
¦ ¦ ing Borneo and Celebes, etc.
= 1,721 »
1,721 × 1.6 = 2,753.6 km.
Dutch West Indies (Surinam = Dutch Guiana, Curaçao) — no railways.
* Thus in "The Statesman's Year-Book." Ed.

# Neumann-Spallart. "Obersichten der Weltwirtschaft". Edition 1883-4.
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p. 508. "On the island of Mauritius since 1882 on both railways totaling 92 miles there has been no further construction."
Ibidem, p. 512. 1885
Angola = 350 + Mozambique = 90
440 km.
92 miles × 1.6 = 147.2 km. + 440 = 587; 147.2 : 587 = 25.1%
1890
1890 = 910 approximately 98 km. English (island of Mauritius)
¦ 520 292 » Portuguese (Angola and
— Mozambique)
390 km. + 390; 390 × 25.1 = 97.89
520 French
= 910

# Ibidem, p. 504. Jamaica (1885) — 107 km.
Barbados 42
Martinique ("short" railway lines)? no information.
| 1913 |
| 1890 |
Jamaica Martinique Barbados Trinidad 313 224 175 142
= 474 854
let us assume 40 km. in 1890 for Martinique (somewhat less than Barbados)
4 small colonial states
Holland + 3,060 1,361 3,781
— 2,854 2,914
4,421 6,635 — 2,854
Portugal 2,149 346 2,983 1,706 60
Belgium 5,263 8,814 1,390
Italy 12,907 17,634
= 25,086 155
39,317
(11 states)
Spain 9,878 15,350
Switzerland 3,190 4,863
Scandinavia 11,566 21,354
Austro-Hungary 27,113 46,195
Rumania 2,543 3,763
Serbia 540 1,021
Bulgaria and Turkey 1,765 1,994 1,931 1,609
Greece 767
57,362
98,080
British in Africa [1913]
6,399 1,775 5,582 3,872
= 17,628 5,946
3,790 (1,099 + 192 + 418 + 302 + 1,567 + 212 = 3,790)
27,364
Asia America British in Asia:
1890 1913
British 27,000 22,712 55,761 56,732
308 434 971 + 92
100 35 56,732 56,824
27,408 23,181 + 1,380
58,112 + 92 Malacca
58,204
1890 1913
Asia 33,724 108,147
Africa 9,386 44,309
Australasia 18,889 35,418
61,999 187,874
Europe 166.2 268.9 1913
British Empire 107.3 207.8
Russian Empire 32.4 78.1 Europe 346 235
Eastern Asia 3.3 27.5 America 570 108
America 308.1 521.9 Other 187 874
= 617.3 1,104.2 1,104 217
617 283 1,104 157
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